(The Hill)
William Barr, 68, served in the role in a very different Washington and under a very different president from 1991 to 1993 after he was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate.
If confirmed, he’d take over from acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and succeed Jeff Sessions, who ran afoul of Trump by recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
Here are five key things to know about Barr.
He’s criticized Mueller's team
While Barr has not directly commented on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, he did question donations that members of the investigative team made to Democratic political candidates, including Hillary Clinton.
“In my view, prosecutors who make political contributions are identifying fairly strongly with a political party,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post in July 2017. “I would have liked to see him have more balance on this group.”
Earlier that year, in an op-ed for the Post, Barr said Trump was right to fire FBI Director James Comey, who was leading the investigation into whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. Read more